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Mount Roraima

You can see 246 km from here, looking south-east.

Calculating the panorama…

Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.

The view

Up to 246 km away.

Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.

76out of 100

Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).

  • 246 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
  • 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 28Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 2,352 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 28 peaks you can name from here

From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.

Wei-Assipu-tepui2,400 m · 11 km · north-eastParamakatoi988 m · 127 km · eastUei-tepui2,150 m · 22 km · south-eastCerro Pupú1,230 m · 73 km · south-westCerro Pakaiwariyén1,370 m · 75 km · south-westCerro Capibara1,380 m · 77 km · south-westCerro Eskuá1,180 m · 118 km · south-westCerro Chirikayén1,420 m · 72 km · south-westGuá Tepuy1,250 m · 94 km · south-westCerro Kanaupán1,140 m · 111 km · south-westUpuigma Tepuy2,100 m · 132 km · westAcopán-tepui2,112 m · 144 km · westChurí Tepuy2,400 m · 140 km · westTirepón Tepuy2,400 m · 143 km · westCerro Iwau2,050 m · 147 km · westKukenán Tepuy2,680 m · 9.8 km · north-westTramen Tepuy2,700 m · 39 km · north-westYuruaní Tepuy2,400 m · 22 km · north-west

From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.

The sun

The best sunsets are in September.

When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.

  1. Janwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
  2. Febwestsets on an open horizon26%
  3. Marwestsets on an open horizon27%
  4. Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  5. Maywest2 min before the sea-level sunset17%
  6. Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
  7. Julwest2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  8. Augwestsets on an open horizon31%
  9. Sepwestsets on an open horizon38%
  10. Octwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
  11. Novwest-2 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  12. Decsouth-west-2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  • Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
  • Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
  • %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).

The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.

The place

Mount Roraima.

High plateau in South America

Mount Roraima is a summit in Venezuela, 2,352 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 246 km away, looking south-east.

28 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kukenán Tepuy (2,680 m), 10 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.

The skies are clearest in September.

Roraima3 (79)
Paolo Costa Baldi · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Mount Roraima seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2other viewpoints within 5 kmMirador la Ventana
  • 1named peaks within 5 kmPiedra Basilio
  • 10campsites within 10 kmCampamento Base, Acampamiento principal, Hotel Sucre and 7 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
  • marked trails within 3 km
  • shelters and huts within 5 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • visitor centres within 5 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

What you see from Mount Roraima, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas20 mountains within 25 km
Mount Roraima · this placeMount Roraima2,810 m · 0.2 kmKukenán Tepuy2,680 m · 9.7 kmWei-Assipu-tepui2,400 m · 11 kmCerro Koimará1,260 m · 18 kmCerro Parai1,410 m · 22 kmMaringma-tepui2,147 m · 22 kmUei-tepui2,150 m · 22 kmYuruaní Tepuy2,400 m · 22 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Mount Roraima, Venezuela (12371474504)
M M from Switzerland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Panorámica del Tepuy Roraima
Carlos Santos Colorado · CC BY-SA 3.0
CAMINITO AL RORAIMA
Luis Alejandro Cisneros · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Mount Roraima

Venezuela

  • 76Viewyas Score
  • 246 kmFarthest ridge
  • 28Peaks in view
  • 2,352 mAltitude

Auyán Tepuy

Venezuela · 215 km

  • 44Viewyas Score
  • 19 kmFarthest ridge
  • 1Peaks in view
  • 1,621 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4777) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Darkskyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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